The great James Thurber, in his recollection of his old English teacher, 'Here Lies Miss Groby', mdntions the tomato-in-a-tin gag as an old vaudeville routine, in connection with a misunderstanding between his teacher him as to whether the figure-of-speech about container-for-thing-contained could be reversed as thing-contained-for-container.

There was once a thread on all the many different songs sung to the Villikins/SweetBetsy tune which contained some variants of all these IIRC.

~Michael~